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Soyoil futures recently found themselves in a near vertical uptrend, gaining more than 25 per cent.
Markets, News

Veg oil markets bubble up from depths

Expert's Radar: Dry conditions lift futures well off recent lows

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Mini-donuts, churros, beaver tails, rollkuchen, funnel cake, corndogs, French fries, even Mars bars — they all taste better when fried in oil. The summer festival season of fried food from food trucks is just getting underway, while the markets for the vegetable oils filling all those deep fryers have also been heating up. Soyoil Since
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Crops, Markets

Net short drops in canola as funds cover positions

Traders expand net longs in soy, corn

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MarketsFarm — Speculative traders were busy covering short positions in ICE Futures canola during the week ended June 20, taking the net short position in the market to its smallest level in four months, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As of June 20, the
CBOT September 2023 soft red winter wheat with 200-day moving average, MGEX September 2023 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. September 2023 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat retreats after Russia worries lift market

Wheat down off four-month peak; corn and soybeans also retreat

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures declined on Monday in a technical and profit-taking retreat after concerns about political stability in major exporter Russia had lifted prices earlier to four-month highs. Corn ended mixed and soybeans closed below session highs as milder temperatures and crop-boosting rains in parts of the U.S. Midwest over the
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Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Rains lift interest, prices

Dry conditions in U.S. Corn Belt supportive

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MarketsFarm — When Alberta was dry, feed prices drew little interest according to Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. But that changed after some timely rains, with prices on the rise. “There’s more demand than we have seen in a while,” Leclerc said. “When crops were looking crappy and people were worried about
CBOT November 2023 soybeans with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy, corn down off multi-month highs

CBOT winter wheat firm

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures fell on Thursday, pressured by a round of profit-taking and some weather outlooks that called for relief to drought-stricken crops in the U.S. Midwest, traders said. “The markets have obviously been overbought on the run-up here on weather,” said Mark Soderberg, grains research
CME August 2023 live cattle with 10-, 20- and 50-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise, hogs fall

Feeder cattle back in Bollinger range

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures firmed on Thursday, rebounding from a sharp decline a day earlier on support from weakness in the corn market. Live cattle futures also closed higher but hog contracts weakened, extending a sell-off that started on Wednesday as traders said the market remained technically overbought. Analysts
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Crops, Markets

AAFC’s June supply/demand estimates mostly unchanged

Corn exports adjusted upward

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MarketsFarm — Monthly supply/demand projections from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada were left mostly unchanged in June, as the department awaits updated acreage estimates from Statistics Canada at the end of the month. Only corn saw any adjustments in the numbers from May, with a 200,000-tonne increase in 2022-23 exports, now at 2.05 million tonnes, resulting
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Crops

U.S. to boost biofuel mandates over next three years

Biofuel groups still feel shortchanged

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Reuters — The Biden administration on Wednesday increased the amount of biofuels that oil refiners must blend into the United States’ fuel mix over the next three years, but the plan has angered the biofuel industry, which says mandates for corn-based ethanol and biodiesel are not high enough. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized
Soil cracks around corn plants below knee-high at Manchester Township, about 130 km west of Philadelphia in southern Pennsylvania, on June 6.
Grain Markets, Markets

Dryness leads to spike in weather market

Several canola contracts punched up above $700

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Growing concerns over dry conditions in North America, as well as parts of Europe, Argentina, Malaysia and elsewhere, led to a spike in oilseed and grain prices. That was particularly felt on June 15 when North American markets spiked upward and saw ICE Futures canola jump more than $20 per tonne for the most heavily-traded

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